Example sentences of "[vb past] they the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 2 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 3 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
| 4 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 5 | In Germany , in July 1932 , the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag , which made them the majority party , although Adolph Hitler was not able to become the Chancellor until January 1933 . |
| 6 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 7 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 8 | What made them the ‘ vanguard of the world revolutionary movement ’ was the ‘ party of a new type ’ . |
| 9 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 10 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 11 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 12 | She envied them the sense of occasion and togetherness that they had . |
| 13 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 14 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 15 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 16 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 17 | ( We should hear the question ‘ Who sold them the weapons ? ’ more often . ) |
| 18 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 19 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 20 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 21 | One of the men was nervous , so the guard asked them the number of the car they were driving . |
| 22 | Adrian asked them the way to Woodbrook , then came back and told me that there was a ruined castle behind the shop . |
| 23 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 24 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 25 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 26 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 27 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 28 | Wexford brought his beer and as he passed them the man got up as if to take his leave . |
| 29 | When thou gavest them the rod and |
| 30 | Well , he found them the best ski runs in the Cairngorms when they started and they could n't afford to give him anything very spectacular , so he said , ‘ Can I have the ski shop and the bobble hat concession ? ’ |